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Keynote given to the SEDA Annual Conference in 2011 with the overall theme of e-learning. Title: e-learning: how far have we (really) come?
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Ten Years in Technology-Enhanced Learning:How far have we (really) come?
Helen Beetham @helenbeetham
Ten Years in Technology-Enhanced Learning:How far have we (really) come?
Helen Beetham @helenbeetham
Education Technology Timeline
Education Technology Timeline
3500 BCE writing
Education Technology Timeline
3500 BCE writing
1453 moveable type
Educational Technology timeline
Educational Technology timeline
2001 online field trips
Educational Technology timeline
2001 online field trips2005 interactive textbooks
Educational Technology timeline
2001 online field trips2005 interactive textbooks
2024 learning and workcompleted at home
Educational Technology timeline
2001 online field trips2005 interactive textbooks
2024 learning and workcompleted at home
2030 computers replace books
Technology stories are stories about the future...
...that tell us a lot about the present
Technology stories I have heard
Technology stories I have heardTechnology will make learning more interactive
Technology will make learning more personal
Technology will make learning more collaborative
Technology will make you more productive
Technology will undo all the effects of educational disadvantage
Technology stories I have heardTechnology will make learning more interactive
Technology will make learning more personal
Technology will make learning more collaborative
Technology will make you more productive
Technology will undo all the effects of educational disadvantage
‘E-learning is important because it can contribute to all the government's objectives
for education - to raising standards, improving quality, removing barriers to learning, and, ultimately, ensuring
that every learner achieves their full potential’ (DfES 2003).
Technology stories I have heard
Technology stories I have heardTechnology will make learning more interactive
Technology will make learning more personal
Technology will make learning more collaborative
Technology will make you more productive
Technology will undo all the effects of educational disadvantage
Technology stories I have heardTechnology will make learning more interactive
Technology will make learning more personal
Technology will make learning more collaborative
Technology will make you more productive
Technology will undo all the effects of educational disadvantage
‘Soon there won’t be any technology, it will all be direct, you know. Mind to mind. Or just that one technology, the mind to mind one.’
Computer science student, 1999
Education is also a story about the future
Formal education (for a few) really got going in Western Europe with the Reformation
Extended to the majority during the industrial revolution-> beginning of a national, public education system
When things changed very little, people learned through imitation, observation and enculturation
Education is also a story about the future
Hypothesis: society invests in (public) education to the extent that young people have to be prepared for a future that is different from the previous generation
The curriculum = a map of that possible future
Mapping the story of Technology Enhanced Learning in UK HE
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
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Mapping the story of Technology Enhanced Learning in UK HE
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
From computers to networks totechnology-enhanced environments
From teachers to learners
From computer-based activitiesto digital universities
Mapping the story of Technology Enhanced Learning in UK HE
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
From computer-based activitiesto digital universities
‘We are not rethinking some part or aspect of learning, we are rethinking all of learning in these new digital contexts’ (2007)
Digital technology is systemic in education
Digital technology is implicated in the crisisof confidence/legitimacy in public higher education
“a consumer revolutionfor students”
Digital technology is implicated in the crisisof confidence/legitimacy in public higher education
“higher level skills for a knowledge economy”
From collegiality to managerialism
From innovation to standardisation
From public service toconsumer benefit
Digital technology is implicated in the crisisof confidence/legitimacy in public higher education
In telling hopeful stories about the technological future...
... we must not ignore the crisis in front of us
politicspower
disadvantagefinite resources
Some hopeful signs from the world of technology
Some hopeful signs from the world of technology
ingenious devices
connectivity -> emergence
power, speed & scale
multimedia capture / design
information = communication
Some hopeful signs from the world of technology
Some hopeful signs from the world of technology
‘I took the whole published works of Ted Hughes into that archive with me, on my laptop. And
that meant, when I saw... that image he’d changed, I could search through everything he’d every written and trace it, and find the echoes... That would have been my
whole PhD, 20 years ago.English studies student, 2011
Three hopeful stories about the future of education in a digital world
The new means of knowledge production:open content and open educational practices
The new critical being: digital literacy beyond ECDL
Education/al/development for an uncertain future
Open content and open educational practices
collaborating openly across borders
re-using content in teaching contexts
supporting public access to knowledge
teaching/learning in open networks
using and supporting others to use open content
open publication
open research data
open peer review and comment
using open source tools
Open content and open educational practicesCapetown Declaration (2009)We encourage educators and learners to actively participate in the emerging open education movement... creating, using, adapting and improving open educational resources; embracing educational practices built around collaboration, discovery and the creation of knowledge; and inviting peers and colleagues to get involved.
Digital literacy: from skills to practices
(digital literacy - maslow’s hierarchy, schon’s double-loop learning)interrogating the ends as well as the means)
Digital literacy: from confident use to critical action
Graduate Attribute Statementsa confident, agile adopter of a range of technologies for personal, academic and professional use (Oxford Brookes University)our graduates will be confident users of advanced technologies; they will lead others, challenging convention by exploiting the rich sources of connectivity digital working allows(Wolverhampton University)to be effective global citizens and interact in a networked society (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Technoliteracies must become reflective and critical, aware of the educational, social, and political assumptions involved in the restructuring of education, technology, and society currently under way (Kahn and Kellner 2005)
Digital literacy: from confident use to critical action
‘questioning the ends for which technologies offer themselves, as well as the means by which they are useful’ (2010)
Design for an uncertain future: the new curriculum
Design for an uncertain future: the new curriculum
Design for an uncertain future: the new curriculum
'Engaged students – the leaders of tomorrow – are encouraged to see
how their own ideas can lead to collaborative change … If institutions
can embrace passionate student advocates, they will be in a good
position to drive forward innovation and to make a real and genuine
difference to the services they provide.'Dale Potter, Students’ Project
Coordinator, University of Exeter
Some resources
• JISC/HEA UK OER programme
• JISC Developing Digital Literacies programme
• JISC Curriculum Design and Curriculum Delivery programmes
• Design Studio
A thought from DeweyThe great advance of electrical science in the last generation was closely associated... with the application of electric agencies to means of communication, transportation, lighting of cities and houses, and more economical production of goods. These are social ends, moreover, and if they are too closely associated with notions of private profit, it is not because of anything in them, but because they have been deflected to private uses: a fact which puts upon the school the responsibility of restoring their connection in the mind of the coming generation, with public scientific and social interests.
John Dewey (1916)
Photo by S.Groppi, downloaded from http://www.flickr.com/photos/groppi/105326649/ under a creative commons licence
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